WordPress Or SBI!?Now You Don't Have to Choose!

Thinking about building a website about something you know and love?

Since 2001, people have been using SBI! to turn that same knowledge or passion, having just as much fun, into an income of hundreds or thousands of dollars per month. Build an online business, like tens of thousands have done with SBI!.

SBI! is the only all-in-1, step-by-step system of process-and-software that delivers thriving online businesses. No other purchase is necessary. Everything that you need to grow an e-business is built-in.

WordPress ("WP") builds blogs and websites. But it does not build online businesses, not "out-of-the-box." SBI! does.

That, in a single line, was the difference between WordPress and SBI!.

the right plug-ins and other software, all built-in (thousands of dollars to equal SBI!'s set of tools)

real Support by the company & business-building help by 1 community where members have no ulterior motives, no vested interests other than your success

constant updating/upgrading of every piece of information, every tool, as the web changes.

You need all of that, all in one place, because WP delivers none of it, nothing about business, actually.

bizXpress fills in all those gaps, providing the same high chance and levels of success that SBI! has been doing for more than decade.

We are not saying that it is impossible to succeed with WordPress. But you'll need help from many third party sources, which leads to a jungle of plugins and templates (with possible conflicts and other issues).

But if you prefer to use WordPress as your sitebuilder, bizXpress is now THE other way. Using WordPress.

Few understand this success-vs-failure difference. In a single word, the difference is... business

"Online business" and "web-based business" and "e-business" are terms that refer to how tens of thousands of people, working spare-time or full-time (often from home), build sites or blogs based upon topics that interest them.

That's what most people think, but it's incorrect. The act of site-building or blogging is NOT e-business. It only plays a small part. You do not have a business until you grow substantial income and equity (the amount that someone will pay for it).

No need to be a geek or professional writer. You do not even need to be a recognized expert in your niche (instead, you will become one!). Just do it correctly... Use the right process and tools. If you do, Google and other engines send you free traffic, which you turn into serious income.

How you earn that income varies from using contextual advertising to selling ad space, from adding an online store to offering your services, from promoting products of other companies to selling your own hand-crafted products, from renting or selling real estate to building a large network marketing team, from promoting your local offline business to taking your local business global, from driving your auctions to crazy heights at eBay to selling your own software or e-books...

Focus on 1 method to monetize (ex., sell real estate), or use many income-generators (greater revenues and more stability). Once you have traffic, monetize however you like.

How much you earn depends on how hard you work and on how well you follow a proven process and use the right tools to choose your site's topic (your niche), to grow your site and its traffic/income. It ranges from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands of dollars per month.

The rewards are great, and the risk is far less than building an offline business (ex., a shop). Once your traffic (visitor count to your site) grows, you'll generate revenues in many ways, even while on vacation, even if ill for months, due to significant and growing "passive income."

Best of all, that passive income builds substantial value ("equity"). For example, if your site delivers $100,000 per year in profits, it is worth 3-10 times your profits to someone else.

Most people don't think "build business" when online. They think "blog." (To make matters worse, they may also fall for "make money" schemes.)

Build a real business instead, one with long-term income and inherent value.

How Should You Build An E-Business?

People who want to earn income online tend to drift into blogging because "everyone's doing it." But there is a superior e-business-building option for most (not all) individuals...

SBI! Since the year 2001, SBI! has been designed from the ground up to build e-businesses.

WordPress Launched in 2003, WP is free software that enables you to blog or build a website. It does not provide you with all the information, tools, updating, guidance and support that you need to build a web-based business.

Blogging (or building a site of any kind), is only 1/10th of building an online business. WP lacks the other 9/10ths of growing a profitable e-business. This is where people ruin their chance for success.

The fastest, best way to know is to try one of them, risk-free. Either way, your chance of success rises dramatically.

For most, we recommend SBI!...

If it turns out that you and SBI! are not right for each other, simply refund, no reason needed. More likely, though, you'll be heading towards business success.

Strong upside. No downside.
All you have to do is...

Who The Rest Of This Page Is For (And Not For)

There's more to this page than meets the eye. All you have to do is click on the "Click here to show and read the rest of this page" link (just below this box).

Who should click on that link? If you want to grow an e-business and if you are...

new to all this (perhaps even skeptical about the idea of building profitable e-businesses)

aware that it is possible to earn life-impacting income online, but have yet to succeed

highly web-savvy, trying for years, and can't figure out why significant profits elude you

swayed by the "WordPress is free" proposition. It is only "free" if you do not count the cost of hosting and all the other tools needed to build a business online.

The conclusion is obvious. WordPress is "not" free, not if you want to build an e-business. All it does is put up a blog or site that goes almost unseen.

Take your time and read the rest of this page carefully, critically. It is all proven fact that describes WordPress, "PRE-bizXpress."

IMPORTANT: You are about to read what users of WordPress (without bizXpress) still face, giving you an idea of the competitive advantage you have with bizXpress. It does this by comparing SBI! to WordPress.

But you can have the "SBI! advantage" by adding bizXpress to WordPress. No other product turns WordPress into a true BUSINESS-builder.

In other words, choosing WordPress on its own is one big step backward if your goal is to build an income-generating e-business with growing equity.

We are "PRO blogging." We are "PRO" whatever helps you build a profitable e-business.
That includes two types of businesses where we recommend blogging over SBI!...

The News You want to cover "the latest" in your niche.

The Pundit You want to post frequent, clever comments or articles.

If you want to build a news or commentary site, blogging is for you. Both, though, are
hard and limited ways to build a business. For most people, building a website is
the best way to build a profitable, long-term e-business, with the least amount of
time and pressure.

Business-Breaking Reason #2: The Free Hammer

Besides being the wrong tool, WordPress is not enough.

Think of WordPress as a free hammer.

It's a strong hammer.

The hammer is good at what it does. However, not only is it a great tool for the wrong job (red herring), the hammer is not nearly enough on its own for your purpose, which is to build a business from scratch...

No Complete Step-by-Step Business-Building Manual You don't know if you should build a restaurant or a toy shop (no blueprint), let alone how to build, promote or monetize the business.

No Other Tools You not only have no information, you lack every other tool necessary to research, conceive, build and grow a profitable business.

No One-Stop Community It does not come with thousands of like-minded, friendly people who help you at every step of the way, all speaking the same "process-and-tools language."

No Up-To-Date E-Business Information And Tools You have to spend time following "what's new," much of it distracting, confusing noise. That time should be going into your business.

WordPress, the hammer, comes with nothing else. SBI! includes a hammer (i.e., a sitebuilder). You can even use your own hammer (something you cannot do with WordPress). More importantly, though...

Your choice of hammer is not important. Any hammer will do.

It is everything else that determines your success.

SBI! includes everything else. WordPress includes nothing else.

Everything Else You Need? WordPress Vs. SBI!...

Do you want to build an online business, one that will impact your future? You are going to need a lot more (the "everything else") than a Content Management System ("CMS"). See for yourself how WordPress and SBI! compare...

Extensive collection of free and paid templates. Hard to customize (requires technical knowledge). Free templates usually require a link back to the designer, have no support and often upsell to paid (better) versions.

Automatic creation and updating of sitemap XML file. Ability to prioritize pages. Automated entry into robots.txt file and pinging to engines. (If you do not know what any of this means, it does not matter.)

Not built-in. Requires plug-in. (If you do not know what any of this means, it does matter. You will have to figure this out.)

Not available. You are left to your own devices to identify profitable income streams.

Secure web hosting and automatic file back-up

File back-up against crashing or hacking is your responsibility. Paid third party.

It Doesn't Matter Which Hammer You Choose

Free-&-Simple web-based sitebuilders have doomed most would-be owners of e-businesses since 1997, the year they became widely available. The same pattern of failure repeats year after year after year...

Build a site without proper research and planning, limiting your e-business potential.

Get no traffic due to the cumulative effect of many mistakes.

Research how to get traffic, finding many strategies in many places (some of them wrong).

Give up to low traffic and poor monetization planning (missed many income options).

It does not matter which "hammer" you choose. Why?...
Because blogging (or building a site) does not lead to automatic success.
You must do "everything else" to avoid the above pattern of failure.

What About Free Blogging/Hosting?

Never take the free blog-hosting offers. Own your domain and pay for your hosting.

If you are long-term-serious about your future, you must own and control your business. You want total flexibility, no restrictions. If you read the Terms of Service of free blog-hosting companies, you will realize all the dangers. For example, they have the right to terminate your service, or the entire service, at any time.

Free-hosting is not a foundation upon which to build your business.

What About Unlimited Cheap Hosting?

Many self-proclaimed web gurus suggest that you put up unlimited sites/domains for a grand total of $5 per month. How can cheap hosts make this offer?

Because all of the sites together add up to near-zero traffic. For those few who do generate some serious traffic, your account is taken offline until you pay a price increase (read the small print of the Terms of Service).

Aside from that, building many blogs at the same time is bad advice. It shows a failure to understand the difference between writing a blog and building an e-business.

Only build one serious e-business at a time. Research the niche and execute well. Once it generates good traffic and income, you then have time to start a second. The first earns you passive income and grows with minimal work (thanks to Content 2.0.)

More than half of all SBIers build more than one profitable e-business. They do it, though, one at a time because a serious business takes your undivided time and attention.

What About Using WordPress To Build A Regular Website?

Blogging has a problem. Visitors read "the latest" and then leave. That makes it hard to monetize. Google (in Google Analytics 101) confirms the obvious when it states that "normal visitor behavior is to read the newest post and then leave." People don't bother reading month-old newspapers. They feel the same about blog posts... "old news."

WordPress has been trying to address this inability to build a "non-time-journalized" website (the kind of site that SBIers build) for years. But the world doesn't need another sitebuilder.

There are already hundreds of sitebuilders out there, all with the same shortcomings. They don't provide the process, all the other tools you need, nor the support and guidance and updating that SBI! delivers.

Whether you use WordPress to build a blog (wrong format) or a site (just another site), you are left on your own to figure it all out. You are still missing "everything else."

WordPress Is Not "Free" Because WordPress Is Not Enough

WordPress is free software. If you want to build a business, you're going to need much more information, software and help from third parties. Here is a basic example...

Hosting is not included with WordPress, nor is your domain name. So add $100/year to "free."
That's the first hundred of many hundreds of dollars. The price (in time and dollars) is going to skyrocket. Why?

WordPress will not take you through a process, nor will it give you all the tools you need. It will not guide/advise/help you towards building income and equity for you, nor will it keep you up-to-date.

You will pay for all of that. How much? A lot, in both time and dollars. Another example...

It's not simple to customize the look of your site. Want to move a feature to a different location on the page? There's no manual or guide to instruct you. Learn PHP, HTML, CSS, etc., or hire someone to do it.

By the way, the best template, one that is easy to customize (ex., Thesis) costs $87. The "price of WordPress" goes up again. We are now at $187. For this amount, all you have, so far, is hosting, a domain name and a "theme" (look and feel). You'll need to learn some tech stuff, too.

WordPress, as you can see, is far from free. You pay more than half
the price of SBI! before you even start. And you will spend much more (in time and dollars)
for the "everything else" that WordPress lacks and that third parties sell. Speaking of those third parties...

An entire "third party" industry has grown to meet the needs of "The WordPress Gap." Bloggers who blog about blogging make their money by promoting products that fill that gap. They have grown into a massive industry, one that you will have to navigate with care...

The WordPress Gap Industry

When that happens, people either give up or they search for information and tools. That is when they discover that a huge industry exists to fill "The WordPress Gap."

The following discussion only applies to those who follow WordPress-as-red-herring down the wrong path (blogging is the wrong format for e-business). Stop blogging and investigate SBI!, the only all-in-1 e-business building product. With its unmatched track record of success and its Money-Back Guarantee, just try it.

Wherever there is a large enough need, a product will be created and marketed. Where there are many needs, an entire industry springs up. The WordPress Gap industry divides into 4 types of products...

information/process

tools/software

help/guidance

updating/upgrading.

All are included in SBI!. Since none are included with
WordPress, you will have to piece together a combination of products (and services) from the 4 categories...

1. Information/Process... The "Blogging About Blogging" Info-Gurus

There are thousands of self-proclaimed experts who try to fill the info-gap by making you their business. Some are excellent. Most are not. Some are scams. The firehose of conflicting information is overwhelming.

There so many areas related to building a business online. Most bloggers specialize in one area (ex., how to write well, keyword research, search engines, competitive research, etc.). You must find the best of each and master it all to generate significant e-business income. However, there's a problem...

You do not receive information in an orderly fashion that you can follow step-by-step. Bloggers write about a topic of the day. You have to organize this torrent of jumbled content into a system that works for you.

It takes forever to sort out it all out. Naturally, these bloggers have products to sell you, sometimes e-books or other products that they have created, sometimes as affiliates for other products...

2. Tools/Software... Third Party Products

Some bloggers claim that "you can get it all for free." Then they recommend expensive products ("bait and switch"). Others are honest, earning their income by delivering good info and recommendations.

No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

What about free software? It will upsell you to a "paid" (superior) version or something else. And consider all that you must do to find, figure out and choose free software...

Let's take, for example, Google's free keyword research tool. It provides keywords and data for those who want to buy ads. At first glance, you figure, "if a keyword costs an advertiser a high amount, that's a good keyword for me to write about." And that, in itself, is true...

Soon, though, you realize that Google's tool is selling advertising. It was not created for you, the publisher of information. It does not provide you with enough good keywords for your purposes, nor does it provide any process (all the help is for advertisers)...

You are a publisher of information who sells ads...

How do you choose the best keywords for you?

How do you find lucrative areas to re-brainstorm?

How do you organize the keywords (future topics of your site) into a proper site structure?

None of that is covered by Google's free tool.

That's just one example of a free tool. There are many free tools for each type of software. The free tool is not good enough (often on purpose).

Do you have the time to assess all these tools? Has each company been around for 10+ years, with a top reputation? Does it release free upgrades often? Sorting out all the software tools is almost a full-time job.

Even if you choose the good tools, many are expensive. And none are integrated (i.e., they don't fit together or "talk to each other" since they are from different companies).

You'll spend multiples in time and dollars, compared to SBI!. You still will not have all that SBI! offers.

What About "Plug-Ins?"

Some software applications are called "plug-ins." That means that you can plug it into WordPress or your browser. New word, but same old problems...

Plug-ins are made by different companies, so they don't fit together or talk to each other. They are not built-in.

Free plug-in? See "free software" discussion (just above).

Some plug-ins are good. It takes time to figure out which.

Plug-ins, paid or free, can't cover even half of what you need.

The best software, plug-ins or not, can cost hundreds of dollars.

Like everything else, WordPress leaves it up to you to figure out the best plug-ins.

3. Help/Guidance... Answers To Your Questions

What about when you need advice, guidance? The free version of WordPress does not provide direct support when you have trouble implementing WordPress, let alone when you have business-building questions.

As a result, you will discover countless forums and discussion groups, each with "regulars" who have widely varying expertise. Some contributors have their own hidden agendas (ex., promote a product). They have different approaches, some good, some ineffective, and some of which could get you into trouble at Google.

It's hard enough to evaluate all the "gurus," but how do you figure out who is honest and competent in all those forums? There's only one answer... spend yet more time in an area that is not your business.

Not only do you have to sort all this out, too, you have to keep up-to-date on all of it...

4. Updating/Upgrading... Keeping The Information And Tools New And Shiny

Offline, business people keep up-to-date on topics related to their business. They do not have to constantly read books or magazines about "how to do business."

Online, things change so fast... SEO or "making money online" or blogging itself. Blogging is the right format to use if you want to cover "the latest" in your niche and that niche has a constant flow of news.

You have to keep up-to-date with all the info-gurus, new and upgraded software, WordPress updates, and so on. You have to decide whose opinion is right (most of it is disposable noise-of-the-week).

It's no wonder that many people who wanted to start a business about something they know and love (ex., Barcelona or banana recipes) end up in the business of providing e-marketing advice.

They have learned so much about building a "money-making site or blog," they figure they are experts. And so they join the "Internet Marketing rat-race."

SBI! eliminates the need to figure out the 4 mazes of product types before you can build an online business. You need only SBI!. It provides one process with a proven track record, onecomplete set of tools, oneconsistent set of forums and one source of regular updating and upgrading.

SBI! is the only product that requires nothing else to build the business you love and know.

The Solution? You Take Care of Your Business.
SBI! Handles Everything Else, Including Security

Any time management expert would ask you, "Why are you doing it the hard way, wasting your time trying to navigate all the mazes? It's not your expertise. It's not even your job. Find someone who does it all so you can focus on your business."

That is what SBI! does...

Use a proven process and the right tools to execute the hard parts well. Use SiteSell Support and the SBI! Forums for guidance. Let SBI!'s team sort out what is new and important (updating the process-and-tools as needed)...

It still takes time and effort to build your business. But it all goes into building the business, not figuring out mazes.

WordPress Hacked... Security Issues Persist

A little-discussed issue is WordPress security. It is not secure enough. You regularly read about "security fixes" after hackers have attacked WordPress blogs.

SBI! sites have never been hacked. They are safer due to the nature of the product itself. You will never have to figure out all the steps to secure your blog like you do in this article on the problems with WordPress security. Like everything else in SBI!, we do it all for you so you can focus on what you know... building your business.

WordPress is missing "everything else" you need to succeed at business.

Rational thinking should help to suppress mass-migration to WordPress
for e-business. Let's extend this thinking to commonly repeated "advantages" of
WordPress...

These "advantages" are never analyzed in the context of the real world, where everyday people are starting online businesses. It's time to objectively uncover the truth.

WordPress "Advantages"

The Truth

WordPress is free software.

If your goal is to build a serious e-business, it's useless without your own domain and hosting ($100/year). Add $87 to buy "Thesis," the template that many bloggers choose. $187. You will spend at least hundreds of dollars more.

WordPress is simple.-OR-"SBI! is complex."

WordPress is actually more complex to make it a business-builder because it is missing "everything else." By the time you figure it all out, you will have spent far more time and money to get to the same place as SBI! starts.

WordPress is easy to use.

Yes, but only if your only plan is to blog, not if your goal is to build an enduring, thriving, profitable business. Also, there is some work in setting up WP. There is NO work on getting set up with SBI! -- you just start.

WP has an infinite number of site templates to choose from.

Many free ones are plain. The better ones require a link back or you have to pay for them. The best ones are "paid only."

With WordPress and $100 unlimited hosting, you can have an infinite number of blogs.

Web hosts offer this because the blogs they host get near-zero traffic! Anyway, it is only possible to build 1 serious e-business at a time.

WordPress has hundreds of free and paid plug-ins to
add functionality.

"Plug-ins" is a new word for the same marketing technique used for over 10 years. Free and paid software that you have to find, figure out, and avoid viruses, upsells, etc. ("free" has a cost).

WordPress is always updated with new and exciting features you can use.

Features are about blogging, not business-building. Upgrades corrupt some third-party plugins, making them incompatible. Other errors and bugs and new security holes follow. You are responsible for fixing this (or pay someone). SBI! constantly upgrades its complete system, so you never see any of these issues.

You can now set WP to build a "regular" site, a blog, or a blog within a site.

WordPress is trying to become a sitebuilder and a blogger, but this results in a large flaw...

If you set your home page to be a blog, your next "tier" is just a category, each with a list of posts. It is not a true "tier 2 web page," a disadvantage.

If you set your home page to be that of a site, you relegate your blog to second tier, a disadvantage (it should be home).

Sitebuilder option is fundamentally suboptimal.

If you set WordPress to build a full site (i.e., no blog), you can arrange your content into tiers.

Instead of mechanically organizing tiers, weave links directly into your content. Visitors will find them more interesting, and you'll have a better chance of ranking highly at the engines.

This reduces WP to just another sitebuilder.

WordPress has a built-in commenting feature.

Why bother approving one-line "me too" blog comments, when visitors can create hundreds, even thousands, of brand new content pages for you with Content 2.0!

WordPress is more flexible than SBI!.

The opposite is true, in terms of design, business models, ability to integrate important third party software, and monetization...

Those who upload their own HTML can use any free or paid template ever created, anywhere, by anyone (including hundreds of free SBI! templates).

Design any template you like, in any format, since SBI! accepts any design created by any HTML editor and graphic software (you are not restricted to one format, like WordPress). You can even build your entire site using your preferred sitebuilder (ex., DreamWeaver).

Blogging restricts business model options.

Use Infin It! to add almost any custom features that you want (ex., store, forum, membership site, etc.). You cannot do this with WordPress. For example, you cannot add SBI! to WordPress. But using Infin It!, you can add your WordPress blog to SBI!.

You can install plug-ins to make WordPress do everything that SBI! can do.

The statement is untrue. And there is nothing new about "plug-ins" (see above). SBI! is the complete process-tools-guidance-updating system, with 80+ tools. Brainstorm It! alone is worth more than SBI!'s annual subscription of $299, as are the MailOut, Autoresponder and Content 2.0 modules. Much of SBI!'s software cannot be bought on the web at any price. See the value of SBI!'s tools. It cannot be reproduced by adding free and paid plug-ins.

If you get a good template designed, your blog will look like a professional site.

You can learn everything you need from the various blogs and forums that are available.

Learning, figuring out, and then keeping up with all of the latest trends through all the relevant blogs and forums would take a massive amount of time. That is time better suited to working on your online business. SBI! gives you all the information you need in one spot, then keeps you on the cutting edge of the new and important and enduring, filtering out the noise.

Wrong. You will have to learn SEO with WP and find a plug-in. SBI! trains you in best SEO practices as you build each page, using the built-in Analyze It! module. (And the only thing that Google "likes' is excellent content, well formatted and linked.)

So... WordPress Or SBI!?

Or, if you prefer an even simpler, all-built-into-one, more secure approach, use SBI!...

Millions of people follow each other to WordPress without thinking about business. For most people, that's a fatal mistake because there are only 2 types of businesses that work well with the blogging format (and even then, you are going to need the "everything else" that WordPress lacks)...

"The Latest:" You want to cover the latest news in your particular niche

The Pundit: You want to post frequent, clever comments or articles in your particular niche.

WordPress limits your business possibilities severely...

Maintaining a news site is hard, constant work.

Punditry is useful only for a certain few with special talents who want to build a personal brand (ex., you want to be a published author).

Avoid wasting time and effort and dollars on the wrong platform. Avoid the pain of trying to fill the WordPress Gap.

Instead, invest your energy into building an evergreen "Theme-Based Content Site." The process builds a long-term, profitable e-business that generates income in so many ways...

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